Details

Apple Events is a technology that allows one program to communicate with other programs. Remote Apple Events allows a program on one computer to communicate with a program on a different computer. Disabling Remote Apple Events mitigates the risk of an unauthorized program gaining access to the system.

Solution

Perform the following to implement the prescribed state: Run the following command in Terminal: sudo systemsetup -setremoteappleevents off Impact: With remote Apple events turned on, an AppleScript program running on another Mac can interact with the local computer.

Supportive Information

The following resource is also helpful.

• https://workbench.cisecurity.org/files/299

This security hardening control applies to the following category of controls within NIST 800-53: Configuration Management.This control applies to the following type of system Unix.

References

• 800-53|CM-7b.

Source

• Tenable.com/audits